Spring/Dandelions

Newsletter Easter Monday 2010

Spring again, really the beginning of the year when the garden, all of a sudden, is alive once more. Dandelions are the first flowers to bloom heavily and abundantly and are ambrosia for the bees and other pollinating insects providing abundant food for them after a winter of limited fare. This fullness of pollen and nectar is a gift to all the bees and pollinators, as dandelions do not require pollination to set seed and reproduce.

Dandelions are symbols of abundance, raying discs of golden yellow mirroring the now rising sun as it climbs up in the sky towards summer. Then an abundance of seeds making their presence in the garden and surrounding area secure for the future. Dandelions are excellent spring plants for shaking off the winter and welcoming spring. Eat all parts, roots, leaves and flowers. Known as a ‘blood cleanser’ due to its ability to improve the liver and promote good digestion, dandelions are a welcome presence in the garden this time of year. Really!

Yellow, the color of spring, which includes the daffodils and forsythia as well as dandelions, is the color representing happiness, higher mind and illumination. There is an intelligence to the dandelion that I marvel at. Anyone who has a lawn that is not sprayed with weed killer and mows intermittently as I do, will have witnessed how first thing in the spring, the dandelion flower grows on a tall stem high up towards the sun. Then, with the introduction of mowing, the flower abandons the stem and height and tucks itself down into the rosette of leaves at ground level out of the reach of the rotating blades. A plant that adapts, and quickly, to its immediate environment! We should all be so able!

I have written before about the ability of Dandelion flowers to aid the body, both at the cellular and energetic levels to release what is held in the physical form. The physical body can be viewed as a template that holds our uniqueness and our experiences for us as we live our lives. It is a sensitive medium like a wax tablet that imprints our experiences both favorable and unfavorable. When experiences are too strongly felt, such as tight shoulder muscles, and interfere with our well being something that can aid the release is in order. This is the power of the lowly dandelion flower.

These special properties can be captured in infusions and in flower essences. Both of these dandelion flower preparations have releasing and purification properties and both are in our Dandelion Flower Oil. Aches, pains and tension are literally erased when the oil is massaged into the muscle system. As a sleep aid I now keep a bottle of the oil by my bed and rub it into my torso area from my neck to my belly when I can’t get to sleep and the next thing I know is it is morning and I am waking up, well rested and ready to begin anew. It is kind of like spring in the body. http://www.solumandherbe.com/index.cgi/pid=2|35/DANDELION-FLOWER-OIL-2-oz.htm

Next Newsletter will talk about our skin and the sun. Coming soon.